vasanthk

System Design Cheatsheet

Picking the right architecture = Picking the right battles + Managing trade-offs

Basic Steps

1. Clarify and agree on the scope of the system

• User cases (description of sequences of events that, taken together, lead to a system doing something useful)
  • Who is going to use it?
  • How are they going to use it?

subfuzion

Common Options

-#, --progress-bar Make curl display a simple progress bar instead of the more informational standard meter.

-b, --cookie <name=data> Supply cookie with request. If no =, then specifies the cookie file to use (see -c).

-c, --cookie-jar <file name> File to save response cookies to.

spalladino

# Backup
docker exec CONTAINER /usr/bin/mysqldump -u root --password=root DATABASE > backup.sql

# Restore
cat backup.sql | docker exec -i CONTAINER /usr/bin/mysql -u root --password=root DATABASE

chatchavan

Setup Wireless LAN for Raspberry Pi

The following guide describes how to setup Raspberry Pi to connect to Wifi. It was tested on the following environment:

• Raspberry Pi Model B
• Edimax EW-7811Un USB Wifi dongle
• OS: Raspbian Jessie

Here are the overview of the steps:

hyperupcall

// I'm tired of extensions that automatically:
// - show welcome pages / walkthroughs
// - show release notes
// - send telemetry
// - recommend things
//
// This disables all of that stuff.
// If you have more config, leave a comment so I can add it!!

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ZeroDragon

1. First get to the existing directory
   $ cd my/folder/

2. Now start a new git repository
   $ git init

3. Identify if the current elements on the directory are needed or not and add them to the .gitignore file. When ready...
   $ vim .gitignore

4. When ready create the first commit on the server

ibeex

import ldap

def check_credentials(username, password):
   """Verifies credentials for username and password.
   Returns None on success or a string describing the error on failure
   # Adapt to your needs
   """
   LDAP_SERVER = 'ldap://xxx'
   # fully qualified AD user name
   LDAP_USERNAME = '%s@xxx.xx' % username

cabal95

#!/bin/bash
#

BACKUPDEST="$1"
DOMAIN="$2"
MAXBACKUPS="$3"

if [ -z "$BACKUPDEST" -o -z "$DOMAIN" ]; then
    echo "Usage: ./vm-backup <backup-folder> <domain> [max-backups]"
    exit 1

u0d7i

Disable vim automatic visual mode on mouse select

issue: :set mouse-=a
add to ~/.vimrc: set mouse-=a

my ~/.vimrc for preserving global defaults and only changing one option:

source $VIMRUNTIME/defaults.vim
set mouse-=a

debloper

#!/bin/bash

# Copyright (c) 2021 Soumya Deb <debloper@gmail.com>
#
# Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
# of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
# in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
# to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
# copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
# furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: